Best wings for Super Bowl party? Nominate and apply to judge

That’s what the Times Union food staff wants to determine for our Feb. 4 section, and we need your help.

First, nominate your favorite chicken wing restaurant or store. We’ll buy wings from the top 10 places on the list for an official Wing-Ding. Submit nominations as a comment on this post.

Then, in 100 words or less, tell us why you should be on the judging panel. We’ll invite eight people (six judges and two alternates) to come to the Times Union office for the official Wing-Ding, to be held the week of Jan. 25.

Send judging essays to Ruth Fantasia at rfantasia@timesunion.com. Do not submit essays as a blog comment.

I had wings at Red Front in Troy a few months ago, now I have to have their wings every chance I get! Totally addicting. They are super crispy on the outside and so juicy on the inside! The sauce is great too. Definitely give them a try!

Junior’s Bar and Grill definitely has the best wings in the Capital Region. Moonshine and whiskey barrell are two of my favorites. If you are looking for the perfect buffalo wing, the medium sauce is perfect too.

Poppy’s Place in Menands, wings are crispy, sauces are great and made by the owner with an original recipe they have used for years. Garlic parm is an old time favorite, but the honey bbq as well as mild is great. Hot is too much for me to handle, but if you like spice it definitely is a great flavor!

Bombers tequilla wings are the best – gotta love the homemade blue cheese dressing. Honorable mention to juniors moonshine and My Place in delmar. Why cant there be a place that has both great wings and great pizza? If one is good the other always sucks.

Best wings & best varieties have to go to DUNZY’S PLACE in Rotterdam!!!The sesame teriyaki are my absolutely AWESOME Favs!!!They also have a HOTTEST WING EATING CHALLENGE! Thanks Amy(owner), Dan (Chef) & the whole gang!!!!

4) Doby’s Subs (West Sand Lake) – Meaty wings, possibly breaded and pressure cooked. It’s been a while since I had these but remember they were very very good.

I tend to try the wings at every “tavern” that I visit, it is often rediculous when the wings arrive and they’re small and simply covered in Red Hot. 3 distinct places of dissapointment were Davidson Brothers Brewpub in Glens Falls, Lakeview Inn in Averill park and Two Brothers in Troy.

Word of mouth for the site-“Best wings for Super Bowl Party” does not mean that the site has been hijacked it means that more people have been made aware that there is a contest out there and they are able to express whose wings they favor!!

Poppys place -have been going there since i was a kid and love the hot wings!!!

I think that there is just a lil bit of jealousy going on here with the hijacking comment and puppetry comment about Poppy’s. If people are voting for Poppy’s, it’s because Poppy’s has the best wings. They don’t need to “round up” votes. Their wings speak for themselves. Don’t knock them until you’ve tried them…..Have one wing from there…..and you’ll be voting for Poppy’s Place too. Stop being so negative.

For what it’s worth, at least eight nominations for Poppy’s have come from the same IP address at a department of state government. That may be stuffing the ballot box, but we didn’t say doing so was out of bounds in the introduction above.

The same IP address does not mean they came from the same person. Several of us work together in the same office and we also order wings from poppys weekly. Actually we ordered from there today. We were not out to hijack the contest- just voicing opinion for favorite take out place!!

Lisa – Did you read Steve’s post? Do you understand what an IP address is? Whether Poppy’s has good wings or not, eight posts under different names from the same IP address is the internet version of stuffing the ballot box. Let me guess, Lisa is registered to the same address?

B. I’ve enjoyed all the food I’ve had during my ~10 visits to Poppy’s, but the wings don’t even come close to some of the other suggestions mentioned so far (my choices, especially if one is just considering Buffalo style, are McIntyres and Graneys.)

C. Attention NYS employees who were posting from NYS computers (whether “on break” or not), check my signature. When you post to a blog on the internet during work hours, you feed into, and JUSTIFY the ugly sterotypes of laziness, incompetence and a certain sense of entitlement which the public at large tends to cast on all state employees. I am a proud state employee who knows that I can, and will, assist in effecting positive changes for the citizens of this state; dimwits like you make it REALLY difficult to escape almost automatic ridicule most state employees receive when they reveal, to anyone, that they work for the State…and further, such ridicule, in the aggregate, is what drives the best and brightest RIGHT THE HECK out of public service. Oh, brilliant ones, keep feeding the stereotypes.

To summarize the point of this thread: I like Poppy’s Place, but entirely prefer McIntyres and/or Graneys Buffalo wings.

I’d like to ad that I am also a State employee and cannot fathom the arrogance of posting during work hours. Absolutely irresponsible garbage. Thanks, bub, you do all of us a REAL favor. Probably a 50 year old Grade 6 who looks like Capt. Lou Albanno, and is obviously mad that he can’t pass another test. We can’t wait for you to leave.

BTW, I’ve been to Poppy’s more than a dozen times, and have never seen a patron dining on their wings. Their food ain’t bad, though, and the wings are most likely OK.

I did not see any mention of VALENTE’s PUB in Wynantskill. They have had a consistantly fantastic hot wing recipe for years. Will second (or third) the vote for DOBY’s in West Sand Lake. Doby’s had to be one of the first buffalo wing joints in the Capital District, and still one of the best.

This was suppose to be a blog for wing favorites-not to bash restaurants/pick on state workers/ or insult anyone.

Not for nothing–“laughing” -have you even been in poppys before? apparently not-it actually is pretty nice inside and very well kept. As for their food business-they have more then 20 customers & 2 dozen calls for take out and delivery per day let alone a week!! next time you decide to open your mouth -KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!

rob–do you know what an ip address is? do you realize that it could be several different people all under the same server -lets say in same office or same building -not just one single person making up comments pretending to be different people!!

Now if that was the case I would say that would be considered stuffing the ballot!!

Not yet mentioned but the Fuller Roadhouse on Fuller road. Big long bar, always an empty seat. Casey’s in Renselear has the best blue cheese dressing (big chunks of cheese) and bread served w/oil to go with their wings which are among the best. So many places have good wings that it is sometimes the accompanyments that make it worth going for.

Take a ride over the mountain everyone and go to the Olde Forge Restaurant Rte 7 Lanesboro MA..the wings (no matter what kind ) are amazing.It is more then well worth the trip
Otherwise locally try the Schuylerville Pizza they are a close second

#139—-have been to Poppy’s, and let’s just say no one is bringing a GF or wife there to eat. In the nicest way, it’s an “old mans bar.” (Definition really needed?:)

No offense to the elder gentlemen that choose to drink there. I’m sure their prices are very reasonable, and their wings even may be good, but even Ray Charles can see that the “abundance of consecutive votes of confidence” makes them, and/or their fans look fishy.